In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
PLINY THE ELDERThe perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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